Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-23
DOMESTIC.
The German Reichstag has made the duty
on wheat i've marks.

property 10 the value of 100000. Hayes 4
/ Pauley, dealers in dress trimmings and
braid, were the heaviest losers.
/ No occupation has yet been selected in the
/ Ohio penitentiary for Harper the Fidelity
/ bank Wrecker.
The second annual convention Of the
| National Federation of labor INST In Balti-
| more Tuesday. No business Of importance
was transacted.
! d. DeCastrO q Co., shipping and commits
| sion merchants in New York, have failed for
100000.
Three children of Henry Fawlett, Of Point
/ Pleasant, w. Va, we're burned to death
| Tuesday.
The newly elected legislature in the Ha-
Walian islands, has cut down the expenses
Of the government, and reduced the kings
salary.
San Francisco telegram states that a
/ new overland train viii be put on Dec. q,
| which viii reduce the time between San
Francisco and Chicago to three days and 10
hours.
Beginning Dec. 18th Burlington will put
on fast train between Chicago and Mis-
| souri, river points.
The Salt Lake City chamber of commerce
protested, Tuesday, against the reduction Of
duty on lead and silver ores.
The police are still searching for Mr..
Pyne, NJ. p, who barricaded himself In Lis
hnny castle and resisted them.
A sensational telegram from London
states that Hamilton Williams, Of New
York is to succeed O'DOnOVan Rosa in the
! leadership of the extreme natiOnalists of
that city, and that he has a fund at his dis
posal of 100000 with which TO organize as
soclations and dynamite explosions, by send
ing to England Irish-AmerIcan agents.
Representative of the Presbyterian
church, north and south, met IN Louisville
Wednesday for the purpose OF taking such
measures as may lead to a union Of the two
bodies.
The wOOl-groWers and wool-dealers who
are IN Washington bending their energies
70 lus task OF securing higher instead OF
loWe- taxes on imported wool, are reported
TO have unanimously adopted the following
assertion: III the whole amount Of revenue
derived from wool was abolished, il would
reduce the surplus about $5COO,OOO, or less
than 10 cents per capita of the population,
Chleh IS paid by foreigners, while the old war
taxes" etc.
An address to The pope is being signed by
prominent Catholics of England calling
upon him to use his influence in behalf Of
the Irish uatlOnalists.
The Iowa brewers appear to have given up
the night since the decision of the United
States supreme court sustaining the prOhib-
ltOry law. Two brsWeriss were closed at
Cedar Rapids, Saturday, and now the report
comes that two firms of Iowa City and At
lantlc viii consolidate and remove to
Omaha.
Master workman Powderly's physician
said, Wednesday night, that his case is not
a serious one and that he would recoTer
soon.
Civil Service Commission Oberly IS in
trouble over his reported urging the pro-
motion of young lady clerk IN violation of
the civil service commissions rules. There
IS quite scandal over the matter in Wash
ington.
Henry and William Harlow were instantly
killed by a boiler explosion in their saw
mill, at Seymour, Indiana, Wednesday.
Gladstone will leave England for Venice
on the 26th, to benefit his health.
The American Turf congress met IL Gin
clunau Wednesday,. Representatives from
the Kansas City Agricultural and Mechan-
tcal association and the Waldo Park assOcia-
ton were each present requesting admis-
sion.
Ed Barr, a stock dealer, was burned to
death IN a Denver livery stable Wednesday,.
The proposed bill for the aid of third aud
fourth class pOrtmasters has been drawn up
and Will be presented to congress.
1.-THE Elkhart, Indiana, Paper Pail and
Excelsior starch mills were burned to the
ground Wednesday. Loss $4,000.
The National MerinO sheep register
association met in Jackson, Michigan
Wednesday and condemned the president
DOR his position on the wool question.
At the New York board of trade meeting,
Wednesday, resolutions were adopted calling
for reduction of the surplus revenue, the
fostering or the merchant marine, the grant
ing of subsidies to American steamship
lines, the abOEshing of the internal revenue
tax upon alcohol used in the arts and man
utactcries; the adoption of postal tele-
graph system, the consideration of a com
merclal treaty with Canada, and that some
means be devised to perpetuate the national
banking system. and that bankrupt law be
adopted.
Stockmen from the northern part Of the
Panhandle, Texas, are calling upon the state
and federal authorities for protection against
cattle-thieVss. They declare that the public
land strip Ia virtually in the possession Of
these desperadOes, who have established
reign of terror there. Murders are OF daily
occurrence, and there is no way of bringing
the criminals to Justice.
A New York dispatch Thursday states. In
the case against Gould and Sage if a convic-
ton should DO the result of the trial, the
fine would amount 10 between IS, ZOO, 600
and S6,OOO,OOO for the benefit OF the Kansas
Pacific bondholders, and the 20 percent
additional, amounting TO 81, 100000 or ST.
100000, would 90 to the county.
The trial Of Henry Ives for hypotheeating
100000 from the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and
Dayton railroad, has been began in the
new 4DEA bO44GG court
''Fhe admission as one state convention
met in Aberdeen, Dakota, Thursday, and
organized to work IN Washington this win
ter for that end. The convention favOrs
the opening Of the Sioux reservation.
The Wabash will put on fast train be-
tween st. Louis and Council Bluffs.
A New York dispatch, dated Thursday,
Itates that Representative Holman, OF Indi-
ana the great objector, does not want .
place on the appropriation committee.
Jos Knight, boOkk65per OF the nj anu1ac-
turers' National bank Of Philadelphia, was
taken before the United States commission
er Thursday, charged with stealing between
10000 and $4,000. 1t is said that Knight
has been apprOpriating bank funds to his
own use for twenty-five years.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
Ereedman's Aid society assembled in Chica-
60 Thursday. The society has established
IN the south for cOlOred people tWenty-fOuF
schools and colleges, employing 124 teachers,
and for the past year having an average at
tendance of 4, 500 pupils. For white pupils
there are fifteen schools and eighty-thre
teachers, with an average attendance OF 200
pupils An appeal was made to the pastors
and people OF the north TO aid the work OF
contributions. The places for next year
call for $4,000. Since the foundation, the
society has expended 500, 900, and has school
property to the value Of 81, 100000 In its
possession
The Russian official lfiLttdry Gazette says
that Germany ans Austria are making more
extensive preparations for war than any
other European nations, and points them
out. The Gazette claims that Russia Is doing
nothing except to make ordinary improve
ments TO keep up with the times.
Met His Death IN q Balloon.
OwEssBURaBoRO, KY, December 13.-An
immense balloon was observed sailing over
tins city Saturday afternoon at a great
height Yesterday it was found in an old
swamp about ten miles south Of aaWesvilIs.